tracks, and so on

[mdlbear]

Fixed many of the problems with this morning's dump CD; revised four tracks in all. Mostly just levels, though fixing "Uncle Ernie" involved going back to before I damaged it with too much eq. Sounds better without, I think. Still a couple of timing oddities -- singing against a scratch track is hard if you haven't done it much. I'm getting better, but...

I haven't been getting much work done, but the situation is gradually improving. Spent most of the afternoon reading our annual research report and chasing links to some of the technical reports. Fascinating reading; I had one idea that looks as though it'll turn into a tecnical report for next year. Nothing like getting an early start.

The weather seemed cold and damp, and the forecast included rain, so I skipped my usual walk and went to Fry's, chasing a 400GB Seagate SATA drive advertised for $100. I've heard fewer complaints about Seagate than Maxtor recently; now I have one of each and upgrading my main fileserver is going to be much simpler -- I'll just double my existing partitions. My main drive, currently a 200GB, is 95% full in the main partition. Audio and a Debian partition will do that.

You probably don't want to know about my plans in detail, but I'm going to write it down so's I don't forget. The fileserver currently has a pair of 200GB drives; the main one is mirrored nightly to the secondary. /home, /opt (third-party software), and /local (often mounted on /usr/local and containing locally-developed content) are 11GB and not full at all. The big partition contains the Debian mirror and all of my album and track working directories. That's full.

More specifically,

/dev/hda2             11543048   5041452   5915224  47% /
/dev/hda5             11543016   1942576   9014072  18% /opt
/dev/hda6             11543016   5046440   5910208  47% /home
/dev/hda7             11543016   2725808   8230840  25% /local
/dev/hda8            146941596 133088940   6388460  96% /vv

I think I'll double /home, leave /opt and /local alone, add a partition for /var, and throw the rest in /vv. I was hoping to get the album done first, but this will be fairly simple, and I'm not sure I can finish the album without gobbling up another 6GB.

Now, this will leave me with a pair of 200GB drives. One will probably become the new backup drive, though the current one (160GB) isn't full yet. I'll wait until it gets a little closer to full before I archive it.

Sure enough, it was starting to rain as I was leaving Fry's. If I'd gone out for my usual 1-hour walk I would have spent the last 20 minutes getting wet.

Ordered another isolation transformer, a mic stand bag, and a couple of other items from Musician's Friend. Free shipping for orders over $99.

I'm starting to get fuzzy around the edges. Time for bed.